– Rachel Boynton’s gripping new documentary Big Men, about the Kosmos Energy exploration in Ghana, is showing in New York next week and she is offering to do a Q&A with students on the afternoon of Thursday April 3 at the IFC Cinema in Greenwich Village (just down on sixth ave and Waverly). The screening will be at 1:40pm so the talkback with Boynton would be around 3pm. She has footage from the Niger Delta and got a lot of corporate access as the negotiations and allegations of corruption were taking place.

– Legendary investigative journalist Ken Silverstein’s new book “The Secret World of Oil” is coming out soon and we are inviting him up to SIPA. Silverstein is highly well regarded and has written extensively on Africa for the LA Times and other publications.

Keynote Speaker: Donald SadowayThe future of disruptive tech: shaping the energy sector’s next decade
Donald Sadoway is a professor at MIT, an inventor and entrepreneur, and was named one of Time Magazine’s “Top 100 Most Influential People in the World” for his continuing work on improved batteries. He is a leading energy storage and environmental sustainability expert and his company, Liquid Metal Battery Corp, was recently funded by Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures and Total S.A. Watch his 2012 TED talk here.